The merger of geophysical vortices at finite Rossby and Froude number

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.367MaRDI QIDQ4582935zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jean N. Reinaud, David G. Dritschel

Publication date 27 August 2018

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16629

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicsrotating flowsstratified flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

Recommendations

• Vortex merger near a topographic slope in a homogeneous rotating fluid
• The critical merger distance between two co-rotating quasi-geostrophic vortices
• The merger of vertically offset quasi-geostrophic vortices
• The merger of two-dimensional radially stratified high-Froude-number vortices
• Vortex merger in rotating stratified flows

Cites work

• A balanced approach to modelling rotating stably stratified geophysical flows
• An explicit potential-vorticity-conserving approach to modelling nonlinear internal gravity waves
• Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
• Balance in non-hydrostatic rotating stratified turbulence
• Balanced solutions for an ellipsoidal vortex in a rotating stratified flow
• Contour surgery: A topological reconnection scheme for extended integrations using contour dynamics
• Evolution and merger of isolated vortex structures
• Interaction between two quasi-geostrophic vortices of unequal potential vorticity
• Spiral patterns of inertia–gravity waves in geophysical flows
• Strong interactions between two corotating quasi-geostrophic vortices
• Symmetric vortex merger in two dimensions: causes and conditions
• The critical merger distance between two co-rotating quasi-geostrophic vortices
• The emergence of isolated coherent vortices in turbulent flow
• The merger of vertically offset quasi-geostrophic vortices
• The shape of vortices in quasi-geostrophic turbulence
• The stability and energetics of corotating uniform vortices
• The vortices of homogeneous geostrophic turbulence
• Vortex merger in rotating stratified flows
• Vortex merging in quasi-geostrophic flows

Cited in

(9)

• Formation of small-scale vortices in the core of a large merged vortex
• Finite Froude and Rossby numbers counter-rotating vortex pairs
• Vortex merger near a topographic slope in a homogeneous rotating fluid
• The merger of two three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic baroclinic tripolar eddies
• Coalescence of lenticular anticyclones in a linearly stratified rotating fluid
• The physics of vortex merger and the effects of ambient stable stratification
• Point-vortex dynamics in three-dimensional ageostrophic balanced flows
• Three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic vortex equilibria with \(m\)-fold symmetry
• Balanced ellipsoidal vortex equilibria in a background shear flow at finite Rossby number

This page was built for publication: The merger of geophysical vortices at finite Rossby and Froude number

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4582935)